0.10.0b Patch Notes

you are wrong rubble..
it restarts by itself and it ignores the amount it downloaded before!

No, it only lists stuff that was already downloaded when it starts on the progress bar. Thus, if you download some content, and then the patcher fails/is closed, when it's restarted it will say 0% because it's only measuring the bit you don't have yet - the total amount displayed to download will be smaller, as it's not counting content you already have.

In this case it seems that the download is a single file (client.exe), and I reckon it cant partially update a file and thus it's actually restarting at scratch every time. I'm at least sure that I would have gotten my 7.71mb download done by now given the number of times it got to 10 or 20%

No wonder your patching servers are under extreme load. -.-
People are trying to download new patch although they are downloading the full game.
Check how big is the patch you're downloading. If it's ~8MB it's new patch if not you are downloading full game and you probably have the patch already. There is some people who actually wants to download this game. -.-